CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS OF CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION AND DEPLOYMENT IN THE DEVOPS CONTEXT: A MULTIVOCAL LITERATURE REVIEW PROTOCOL

CONTEXT- DevOps is a term used to describe the way in which an organization can promote cooperation between the development and operations teams. Its goal is to increase the effectiveness in delivering the products, based on the principles used by the organization. It has to do with trying to achieve cohesive goals, utilizing compatible tools and practices among these teams despite the inclination towards divergence. Joint effort is an important fundamental in the achievement of common goals. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is a concept of DevOps where the building, testing and deploying of codes is automated. OBJECTIVES- This research study is intended to explore the CI/CD pipeline challenges/obstacles and solutions/practices in the DevOps context. METHODOLOGY- We have developed a Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) protocol, and are in the process of implementing the protocol. MLR is based on a structured protocol, and is therefore, different from ordinary literature review. It incorporates both published and gray literature and provides in-depth and more thorough results than ordinary literature review. EXPECTED OUTCOMES- The findings are expected to assist software vendors to manage the issues involving CI/CD in DevOps projects satisfactorily.